How do you drive when towing?
Nah, I am not one of the codgers who sit on 80kph whilst pulling a 3500kg van in a dual cab.
Why people have the pull around their own house on wheels. I'm sorry, I just don't understand..I just don't get it.
If the traffic on a dual carriage way are punting along I endeavour to stay with the flow of traffic. Nine out of ten times you are travelling along @ 90km in a section of traffic anyway. I tend to pick routes, travel times and traffic conditions away from the main highways.
I've got a camper trailer @ 800kg and it's nice to tow..I can sit on 100km all day long.
As for trailer brakes..I do not have a great deal of faith in them, I've seen too many incidents where drivers bias them too much.
Many people and dash cam videos are proving this, motorists are travelling too close together. People cocoon themselves too much in their vehicles these days and do not anticipate.
People are forgetting braking distances with respect to what they are pulling. They feel that towing a van even 2500kg can be stopped in half the distance when travelling at 100kph because the van has brakes.
In respect to the greys who poke along @ 80kph. I sit and wait for better conditions to overtake. I bide my time, patience.
It's just travel on the road these days, they have a right to be there as me and you. We better start getting use to it for there will be a lot more people on the roads pulling vans the next 10 years.
The way marketing has pushing lately..there will be bigger heavier vans with bigger vehicles/ Utes (trucks) they are calling it these days..give me strength.
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Nah, I am not one of the codgers who sit on 80kph whilst pulling a 3500kg van in a dual cab.
Why people have the pull around their own house on wheels. I'm sorry, I just don't understand..I just don't get it.
If the traffic on a dual carriage way are punting along I endeavour to stay with the flow of traffic. Nine out of ten times you are travelling along @ 90km in a section of traffic anyway. I tend to pick routes, travel times and traffic conditions away from the main highways.
I've got a camper trailer @ 800kg and it's nice to tow..I can sit on 100km all day long.
As for trailer brakes..I do not have a great deal of faith in them, I've seen too many incidents where drivers bias them too much.
Many people and dash cam videos are proving this, motorists are travelling too close together. People cocoon themselves too much in their vehicles these days and do not anticipate.
People are forgetting braking distances with respect to what they are pulling. They feel that towing a van even 2500kg can be stopped in half the distance when travelling at 100kph because the van has brakes.
In respect to the greys who poke along @ 80kph. I sit and wait for better conditions to overtake. I bide my time, patience.
It's just travel on the road these days, they have a right to be there as me and you. We better start getting use to it for there will be a lot more people on the roads pulling vans the next 10 years.
The way marketing has pushing lately..there will be bigger heavier vans with bigger vehicles/ Utes (trucks) they are calling it these days..give me strength.
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